Rail Budget 2013: What passengers can expect

Rail Budget 2013: What passengers can expect

Feb 25, 2013, 08.02 PM IST

Text: PTI

NEW DELHI: All eyes will be on Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal tomorrow on whether he yields to pressure of hiking passenger fares yet again or looks at other measures to mobilise resources to offset the burden of the recent diesel price hike.

Bansal had on January 22 hiked passenger fares across-the- board after the Railways faced a loss of about Rs 25,000 crore in the passenger segment.

Railways had aimed to mop up an additional revenue of Rs 6,600 crore but the fuel hike had wiped out Rs 3,300 crore, Bansal had said.